Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — IMMENSE GAINS. [ARTICLE]

IMMENSE GAINS.

Temperance Evangelist. A special correspondent to the Chicago Lever encourages the faithful by writing that though the actual vote for the Prohibocratic ticket at the late Vermont election (1,214) was less than the vote of 1888, its relative strength was greater because the aggregate vote of the State was less this year than in 1888. That year it gave less than 2 per cent, of the entire vote, this year it gives 2 3-10 per cent., so that in two years it has actually gained 3-10 of 1 per cent. Immense gains! But in order to show this “immense gain” the correspondent takes the vote for Governor, 1,382 in 1888, instead of the vote for President, 1,460, and wholly leaves out the fact that in 1884 the Prohibition vote was 1,752. Immense gains! Seriously, is it not disgusting to see men of sense on ordinary subjects playing at party, when in twenty years it can. command only 2 3-10 per cent, of the votes of a State, and when it-. has steadily fallen off since 1884? And they claim to be Prohibitionistsl Nonsense! They are obstructionists and nothing else. The Democratic State organ says that the tax on personal property is a fraud and ought to be abolished. The Democratic platform demands a higher appraisement of real estate, which meaits a proportionate release .of pern sonal property from taxation. This position will be approved by moneylenders, owners of mortgage notes and corporation bonds and coupon cutters generally; but what do real estate owners think of it? The new Demqcratic departure in favor of a single land tax ’will scarcely be aonroved by the farmers of Indiana.